TGIF Shows You Completely Forgot About

14. Two of a Kind

Though just babies when Full House first began, the Olsen twins eventually became the show’s breakout stars, going on to be at the center of a huge media empire, comprising books, movies, toys, video games, clothing, and more. But now that they are fancy fashion designers, they are too busy to make an appearance on Full House reboot Fuller House— and chances are pretty good that they wouldn’t show up on a reboot of their second show Two of a Kind, either.

Although it only lasted a single season, Two of a Kind saw quite an extended life in syndication, running for years on ABC Family in the U.S., and Nickelodeon in Europe. In addition, the Two of a Kind “universe” saw surprisingly big success as a pre-teen book series, with a whopping 40 individual books written within the series (including some books that were just novelizations of episodes of the show).

13. Baby Talk

At first glance, Baby Talk— a show where a toddler character has an inner dialogue that only the audience and other toddlers can hear, done in the voice of an adult– might have seemed like a shameless rip-off of the hit movie Look Who’s Talking. In actuality, the show was originally pitched as a Look Who’s Talking TV show, and was co-created by Amy Heckerling, who wrote and directed the movie.

However, with the second Look Who’s Talking film set to be released just before the debut of the series, Heckerling and show co-creator Ed. Weinberger worried that there would too much confusion in trying to promote a TV series and film of the same name at the same time. So the title was changed to Baby Talk, and Heckerling came up with original characters for the show, loosely based on those from the movie.

The cast of the show included TV veteran Scott Baio, Tony Danza as the voice of the baby (and his biological father in the first episode), and dependable ol’ George Clooney in one of his many dues-paying TV roles before his E.R. breakthrough.

12. On Our Own

On Our Own was a show that starred the six real-life Smollett siblings– Jussie, Jurnee, Jojo, Jake, Jocqui, and Jazz– as the six fictional Jerrico siblings– Jesse, Jordee, Jimi, Joc, Jarreau, and Jai, respectively. Kudos to the creators of the show for managing to come up with six completely different J names than any of the kids actually had.

If any of those names sound familiar to you, that’s because Jussie Smullet has recently appeared on the TV show Empire and in the film Alien: Covenant, and Jurnee Smullett-Bell– who, astonishingly, married another, completely different J, named Josiah Bell– has been on a number of shows, including True Blood, Parenthood, Friday Night Lights, and Grey’s Anatomy.

As for On Our Own, it was a show about the six aforementioned Jerrico siblings who lose their parents and are being raised by oldest brother Josh (another J!), who had to dress in drag and pretend to be Aunt Jelcinda (we’re not making this up, honest) to keep the kids from being split up.

The show lasted Just 20 episodes– apparently TV audiences didn’t get the Joke.

The most dramatic fall from grace in Hollywood history continued on Saturday, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to expel disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein amid mounting evidence that he had sexually harassed dozens of women over several decades.

The Academy’s 54-member board–which includes such luminaries as Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg–held an emergency session in Beverly Hills and voted to strip Weinstein of his lifetime membership. NBC News obtained a copy of the release.

It’s only the second time in the Academy’s 90-year history that it has expelled a member. The first was in 2004, when actor Carmine Caridi was given the boot after he lent DVD screeners, or advance copies of movies, to a friend who posted them online.

The meeting was called on Wednesday, three days after the board of Weinstein’s own company fired him. Some board members were concerned about opening a can of worms. Indeed,the board hasn’t taken action against the likes of Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty to having sex with a then 13-year-old girl. Nor has it acted against Bill Cosby, who faces allegations that he assaulted dozens of women over the years. Nor has it addressed “7th Heaven” star Stephen Collins, who admitted in 2014 that he’d molested at least three girls.

Nonetheless, by most accounts, the discussion wasn’t very heated. According to one member, “everyone seemed aligned” on one thing–Weinstein had to go.

No doubt the board was prodded by the growing number of women coming forward to say Weinstein had molested him. Chances were that many of them had heard a tape of an NYPD sting from 2015, in which Weinstein appeared to admit groping a model. Listen here, via MSNBC.

Scott Feinberg, the longtime awards columnist at The Hollywood Reporter, believes that Weinstein’s ouster will result in more pressure for the Academy to dump “other problematic members.” He believes that “a not inconsiderable number” of the Academy’s 8,400 members have “checkered pasts of their own,” and will likely be targeted by those who want all sexual predators purged from Hollywood.

Nonetheless, this vote was long overdue, especially considering reports that Weinstein’s debauchery had been an open secret in Hollywood for years and that a number of attempts to expose him had run aground. It should be noted that once this finally came to light, Weinstein was kicked to the curb in record time. Before Saturday’s vote, he had already been fired from his own company and expelled by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

For some time, conservatives have tried to use Weinstein’s history as a prominent Democratic donor to tie Weinstein around the Democrats’ necks. For instance, Sebastian Gorka claimed–with a straight face–that the left created Weinstein by eroding the traditional respect for women championed by the right. But they forget that once it was proven beyond doubt that Weinstein was a predator, he was pushed out in short order. And many of the same people who slammed Weinstein are the same people who continued to coddle Donald Trump after the “Access Hollywood” tapes came out.

Weinstein could potentially be in for more hurt. He also faces expulsion from the Producers Guild of America and the French Legion of Honour, and he is under investigation by police in both New York and London. For all his talk about fighting to save his reputation, that may be the least of his problems.

McDonald’s ‘Rick and Morty’ Szechuan Sauce Promoti

McDonald’s ‘Rick and Morty’ Szechuan Sauce Promoti

Recently, McDonald’s announced that their Szechuan sauce, which was an exclusive item for a short time in 1998 to promote the film Mulan, would be making a return. After cartoon show Rick and Morty campaigned for its return, McDonald’s promised it would return for a single day on October 7.

That day has now passed, but it will be remembered forever as an utter disaster. Stores were reportedly under stocked on the sauce, and the promotional posters that came with them. At popular stores, cops had to be called to keep the peace.

The same thing happened across the country.

One McDonald’s employee claimed that stores had only gotten 20 packets of the sauce each.

One couple were disappointed when they drove 4 hours from Canada for a chance at sauce.

Others have seen it as an opportunity to make some profit.

While many just couldn’t stop laughing.

There is some good news, though. McDonald’s announced that the sauce will make a return this winter.